: —— 10; 1936 BC WORKER Ss: NEWS Page Three 1OG b 5 Bs S ‘ ‘Men’ s Leather Half Soles Men’s Rubber Heels Men’s Leather Heels __ Men’s Panco Half Soles Ladies’ Half Soles [EMPIRE SHOE REPAIRING 66 EAST — oo ST., Near City Hall @ -T3eé 'themselyes on the Ff = 5 — While You Wait — RUBBER REPAIRS t e y : is %* SEND FLOWERS ito brighten the lives of ' your sick friends! ei For ... FLORAL WORK -:-. WEDDING E : BOUQUETS FUNERAL DESIGNS fq Phone - - - Carleton 686-L ; : V ‘| DR. W. J. CURRY Ge DENTIST = ove {{ 301 Dominion Bank Building (Continued Pars ; Vancouver, B.C. : sein 2 : Phone - - - Sey. 3001 the slight increases they will be : granted. : “What are the reasons.” Me- ‘ = iinnon and Johnson Were asiced, © Hastings Steam Baths “for the employers Srantine these y Always Open increases?” To prove that the t} Expert Masseurs in Attendance Sea given by the operators are : / ‘ : i alse we were shown the followi ing d Eigh. 240 764 BE. 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Pender St., Sey. 282 Do You Wish To Be Well In- ‘ormed on Labor, Economic, So- tial, Political Questions? ... then read THE WORKER seading Tabor Paper in Canada Published Three Times a Week Subseription Rates: Weartane sees: 33.00 HieMonths -2ee Ss: 1.75 3 Months: <2 52S =-90 li POR GR! are -40 38 Church St. : Toronto, Ont. “Play and be Popular” Barney’s Music Studio Associate Teachers of Music, Singing and Dancing Phone for Particulars: Studio: Sey. 5338 - 679 Granville 1 (Opp. Hudson’s Bay) “Music appeals to more people than any other thing” “Htlerism in Canada’’ By A. Mi. STEPHEN Published by the Canadian League Against War & Fascism CB.C. Section) Erice 10c per copy Bundie orders of 10 or over, Te per copy. Obtainable at: Room 5, 163 West Hastings St. and at 615 West Hastings St. Ay You Must Read : Dimitroff’s Report The famous speech which the hero of the Leipzig trial deliy- ered to the Seventh World Con- Bress, in attractive pamphlet form: 60 pages—5 cents. Bundles of 10 or more at 314 cents. Order from: ~ Room 8 — 163 West Hastings St. speaking as vice-president of the Pacific lofginge coneress (compris- ing delegates from both U. S.A. and Canada) on Qctober 23, of last year. Sudden Change of Heart by Boss “During this period of depression no indusiry has taken it on the chin harder than lJogeers (meanings the bosses) and their employees. Without exception all logging; operators have lost misnty of money and know all about the grief and difficulty of meetings the payroll. If ever an anGUStLy Was due for a break ours is.’ What then is res- ponsible for this sudden change of heart and the expressed desire of the operators to share their protits with the loggers? In the opinion of union officials there are many reasons for this. Following are the three major ones: A wage scale was drawn up at the convention of the Lumber Work- ers’ Industrial Union in July, of last year, fayorine a fifty cent per day increase to all men in the woods. Sentiment in the camps in favor of waging 2 strugsle for an imecrease has been rising and prep- arations were made for a wage Scale conference to be held in Van- couver on December 29. It was al this time that increases were an- nounced, probably in the hope of dampening some of the enthusiasm and also of taking away from the union eredit for forcine an in- crease. Another reason is that American trade unions have placed a boycott on Canadian lumber imports as “unfair.” By raising the wages a lithe in BC. the bosses hoped to offset this. Unity of Workers is Serious Threat to Profits AmMother, and possibly one of the Sreatest reasons is that the opera- tors have taken note of the moves for unity between Canadian and U.S.A. lumber workers. Unity such as this this constitutes a great threat to the increased profits of the lumber barons and they are at- tempting to defeat the demand for organizational unity, and the drive for organizing the unorganized, by attempting to create a spirit of apathy. Asked what future plans the union has in order to bring about & scale of wages more satisfactory to the loggers, we were told that these were to some extent still indefinite. They will be dependent to a large extent on achieyvemenis ef unity between lumber workers in B.C. and the U.S. At the pres- ent time the lowest scale of wages in the woods and sawmills in the U.S. is fifty cents per hour; in B.C. (prior to this proposed increase) Wages in the industry are as low as twenty-five cents per hour. The union officials stated that closer unity between the unions on each Side of the border will probably lead to the calling of a conference at which will be discussed a scale of wages satisfactory to the worlk- ers of both countries. 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Late dispatches’ state that the President Mckinley of the Ameri- can Mail Tine, inbound from the Orient today, will discharge pas- Sengers and mail-here but 800 tons of general cargo. largest tonnage booked for discharse at Wictoria for many months, will be carried en to Seattle because -of the con- tinuation of the longshore dispute. Another Ameérican Tine to pass up Vancouver is the Matson Navi- Sation Company which has an- nounced that one of their vessels, the American freighter ‘Golden State,” would pass up a eargso of lumber and logs booked at Van- couver, because of “uncertain labor conditions in British Columbia. SS. Golden Stute, due here Jan- vary 14, will load here and then So to Coos -Bay and California ports. The ship operates from Pa- cific Coast ports to Australia and New Zealand, TREK LEADER AT KAMLOOPS IZAMLOOPS, Jan. 5—DLoud ap- Plause punctuated fhe recital of events of the On-to-Ottawa trek by Arthur Hyans, trek leader, speak- ing to a capacity audience in the Strand Theatre. A resolution pertainine to the trials of the arrested trekkers was unanimously endorsed and a _ ecol- lection of $24.25 taken up to assist in the work of defence. C.N. CONDUCTOR LOSES BOTH LEGS WINNIPEG, Jan. 3.—John Me- Donald, Canadian National MRail- Ways conductor, had both less am- putated yesterday, aS a result of falling under freight cars while en- aged in switching at Muir, some 20 miles northwest of Portage la Prairie. He was taken to Portage ia Prairie, where it was found neces- Sary to amputate his badly smashed less. one at the thigh and the other at the knee. He is reported as being in a very Srayve condition, with little hope held for his recovery. Cesar Villa, now 35 years of age, is a building worker by trade. He | began to take part in the trade union movement of Cuba when he founded the “Fraternidad Puerto” in 1926. This is an organization of the dockers in Manzanillo. In 1930 he was elected general secretary of the Trade Wnion Council of Cuba (G.N.O.C.) He was arrested in 1931 and deported to the Island Pinos on a charge of being the organizer of strikes and protest actions against the murder Mella by government agents. Freed in 1932 he was arrested again shortly afterwards. A wide cam- paign compelled the government to release him again. In August, 1933, he was the leader of the big strike On 2 national scale which resulted in the downfall of the Dictator Machado. He is one of the most cherished and best known leaders of the Cuban workers. When reaction regained power again in Cuba in January, 1934, Villa was constantly persecuted. His house was plundered. His life was in constant danger. After the general strike in March, 1935, he was compelled to live underground. of Comrade | Help Save Cesar Villa, Dockers’ Leader Of Cuba = is the price which the bourgeois press of Cuba has offered for information as to his where- abouts. He fell into the hands of the secret military police and his life is in danger: A wide campaign of protest will help to save him. Send resolu- tions of protest to: The President of the Cuban Republic in Havana: Colonel Batista Campameno de Columbia in Havana; and to the Consulates of the Republic of Cuba in all ports. The International of Seamen and Harbour Workers has already sent the following cable te the President of the Republie of Guba: “Protest on behalf of 500,000 or- ganized seamen and dockers of ~ all countries against threatened death sentence on Villa, secretary dockers trade union stop De- mand immediate release and’ ces- Sation of suppression of workers as well as restoration of political and trade union right of the working class stop International of Seamen and Warbour Workers’ Expose Attempts Of Bosses’ Agents to Wreck Athletic Club and Smash Union 7.—Can- Ltd., the CUMBERLAND, adian Collieries the coal company mines here, are attempting by every means in their power to smash the wnion of the miners. The present move of the company is to try and form a home local, or com- pany-controlled union just as at- tempts are now being made at Bridge River Mines. The plan is working out as follows: A few of the men who have Pyvoved in the past to be company suckers have rallied about three score of miners around them by using various ferms of trickery and slander against the union of the miners. regard to the Athletic Club. This club, before the union was built a-couple of years ago, was controled by a fexw company pets, and was useless as an athletic club to the young miners. Since the union was built and began to en- courage the youth of Cumberland to participate in the club great im- provement can be recorded in mak- Jan. (Dunsmuir) operatine= ing it a benefit to the miners and TRACTORS ARE AS COMMON AS PLOWS ee aeMes PEARMS: Women Have Equal Rights In Land Of The Soviets The following letter has been received by a Canadian housewife in the labor movement, from a woman of the Soviet Union: Dear Comrade: We received your letter and read it at a meeting of our department. You wrote about the conditions of your women workers. Well, permit us also to describe to you the con- ditions of the workers in the land of the Soviets. Nearly half of all workers at our plant are women, who work only on the bench. Some of them hold leadin& positions in the Induction Department; for instance, the ad- ministration consists almost wholly of women, who have formerly been on the machines. The laboratory of the plant is managed by a LOTUS TAXI SEY. S831 City Rates. All passengers fully insured. Late model sedans, radio equipped. Day and Wight Service. Office: 440 Abbott Street Co Greet Ivan Emery Imprisoned Longshore Strike Leader, upon his release from Oakalla Jail, at a BANQUET AND CONCERT to be held in Orange Hall “Wednesday, Jan. 29 at 8 pm. Tickets 35c, available Dist. Office — — Auspices C. L. D. L. woman eéngineer, who eraduated from a Soviet University. The woman worker gets equal pay with the men for equal work and naturally has equal rights with them. Moreover, the Soviet law specially protects the lahor of wom- en, prohibits women to do heavy work. The factory committee has a special inspector (formerly a woman worker) observing ihe fulfillment of the labor protection laws. Great care and attention is given to the mother and child. The work- ing woman is entitled to two months paid vacation before and after confinement. Besides, she gets free medical aid and medicine. She is given a half-hour off every three hours for nursing the baby. The woman worker is given every opportunity to read, to study, to attend the club or theatre. She can sit quietly and work in the shop, knowing that her little ones are well cared for. We have chil- dren’s ereches in the plant, and a ANNOUNCEMENT Whist and bingo, O'Brien Hali, 404 Homer St., Wi ednesday, Jan. 15th, at 8 p.m. Auspices Women's Labor League, Admission 10 cents. Good prizes. ANNOUNCEMENT Sunday, Jan. 12th, at 2:30 p.m., at 4265 Main St.. Vancouver. A. M. Stephen will speak on War and Fascism. ANNGUNCEMENT Italian Workers’ Glub extends thanks to all who supported the entertainment for the children at Christmas at the Italian Workers’ Hall. Cumberland Miners Fight Launching Of Home Local The latest move is in their families. Club an Asset to Miners At present the clup has a reading room, a library, a gymnasium, a billiard room, and other forms of entertainment. This has proved of immense benefit to the young miners and the youth of Cumber- land. the miners have taken a greater interest in the club than previously, and consequently they have more or less controlled the management of the club. The company now find that the club is no longer a weapon in their hands, to be used against the miners and so they are using their meanest tools (company stools) to try and wreck the club, and en- courage the miners to spend their time’ in the beer parlors and gambling joints. = Tools of the Boss The most active company tool in this regard is Alderman W. Hen- derson, who has been circulating a petition among the miners» This petition was cunningly worded and fooled many miners into signing it beeause they figured that they would cease paying anything to- wards the upkeep of the club. Be- fore the union was built the miners had to pay into it, although very few of them used it. Now the club is well patronized and is a rendez- vous for the young miners. Altogether these company suckers were able to collect 160 names on the petition from amone 500 miners and their families, but when it was explained to the miners by the union what the petition really was, many of them went and demanded that their names be taken off. Reactionary Capitalist Press The local paper, which of course is controlled by the coal company, and which made a vicious attack upon the miners during the big strike, has been carrying attacks upon the union through the me- dium of letters to the editor. No doubt these letters are written in the company office. The «union has sent’ replies to iwo of the letters, but the editor refused to publish them. The union circulated a leaflet in reply, in order to combat the lies in the paper, It is with these and other slimy methods that the company hopes ta smash the miners’ union so that they can intensify the speed-up and reduce wages of miners and increase the profits of the com- pany at the expense of the lives of the miners and their living stand- ards. If the miners of Cumberland guard their union and actively combat e@very move made by the company against the miners’ in- terests the company and their tools will not succeed. Kindergarten. There is a dining room restaurant for workers suf- fering from stomach troubles, ete. Children in schoo] get free lunch, 230 children of workers of the plant have their own playgrounds, re- ceive medical treatment in sana- toria, etc. We have some women’ workers acting as deputies of the City and4 District -Soyiets, who in practice’ Jearn how to rule the State. The following are the figures which in all probability will interest you and your comrades: In the year 1930 to 1934, 3,500,000 women first came to work in the national economy of the country. Over one-third of all who studied last year in the universities were women. Last year six million chil- dren were cared for in the creches and this year a half a million more. Twenty million workers eat in pub- lie dining rooms. Just think of the degree to which all this helps to free the women from the constant cares of the kit- chen. This is how in our country day in and day out equality of rights for women is being realized.. Comrade Stalin teaches us to Sive eare and attention to the LIVE PERSON, to his needs and demands. This can particularly be seen in the care and attention fSiven in our country to the women workers and their chil- dren. Fratermmal greetings from the workers and women of our plant. Hoping to hear from you soon, we remain, Comradely yours, (On Behalf of the meetine of workers and women workers of the Conductive Wire De- partment of the Ulsrabel.) Due to this inereased activity, B.C. PRESS DRIVE (Continued from Page i) chasinge after them like Busyein is Soinge after Stakanoy. There are only five mass organi- zations of Workers participating in the Workers’ Press Drive who have net fulfilled their quota, two of them are within “shooting dis- tance.” Approximately 1,700 dollars are in to date. With greetings comins in for our birthday, and with a final spurt during the next ten days we are sure of fulfilling the plan, that is, financially. (Two thousand dollars is the objective). What To Do in 1936 The thing to do now is to build up the circulation of both The B.C Workers’ News and ‘'The Worker.” “The News” must be a better paper in 1936. It should be a bigger paper. This means that the circula- tion must be increased. “The Worker’ must be a daily by the first of May. This means intensi- fied efforts on the part of all the readers and supporters of our papers. We must prepare now to get some thousands of people in B.C. to look forward to the work- ers’ press just as they now lool forward to the evening paper com- ing on the door step. On the first of May, there will be no more need for subseribinge to the capitalist press. All the news worth- while Will be in the workers’ press. We Want to Know Yours and Our Good and Bad Points What we want the readers and supporters to do now, and especial- ly the activists in the drive, is to write and tell us how they got the readers and subscriptions for our press. We want to examine the drive. We would be grateful for a letter from the boys near the North Pole. We want to know if you pass the paper along to your mates in the shop,-mill, mine, ete. Do the mem- bers of your trade union read our Paper? What do they read? What Stories do they like best? What do the youth think of our . press? Where has our press benefited the workers in helpine to build orzani- zation? What do the unemployed Say about our press on the relicf lines? Does our paper help to weld unity among GC.C.F’ers and Com-= munists and the rest of the work- ers, farmers and common people? These, and many other questions, require to be answered now so that we may moye forward in building a mighty labor mcyement in B.C. MANITOBA WAGE TAX OPPOSED BY LABOR WINNIPEG, Jan. 3.—Probability of changes in the provincial two percent wage tax, so as to reduce the amount paid by the lower paid. work- ers, Was hinted at in a statement made Thursday, by the provincial Sovernment to a joint delesation from Wiinnipes Trades and Labor Council, Dominion Trades, Congress and representatives of the railroad running trades. Among other points raised by the trade unionists was a request that the minimum wage be raised from its present figure of 25 cents per hour to forty cents per hour. CLASSIFIED AD COLUMN HOTELS AND ROOMS RAND CENTRAL HOTET, ROOMS, 7-A West Hastings St. “The Place to stay.” Modern, Gom- fortable, Homelike. Prop. Bertha Swanson. Sfp trm yyy } ea UBILEE ROOMS—ALTL NEWLY renovated. Fully modern. Rates reasonable. Prop., Mrs. Edith John- son. 244 Mast Hastings Street. FUEL RY INSIDE FIR—MARPOLE SAWMILLS LTD. Phone Mar- pole 931—(We pay calls). CAFES HE LOG CABIN LUNGH—52 E. Hastings Street. A Good Place to Eat. Relief tickets go far “at the Log Cabin. Open day, and night, TAXIS Ce TASI—SEY. 988—The Log- gers’ Friend. FRENCH DOCKERS (Continued from page 1) Dockers in Port du Bouc unani- mously decided to join the strike, Despite police terror their strike is solid. Besides immediate restora- tion of the cut of two franes, dock ers here demand same rates of pay for work aboard ship and on docks. Mapnificent International Solidarity Italian seamen, requested to work cargo in their ship owing to in- ability of the bosses to get scabs, refused to scab on striking dockers in Marseille. American seamen on the U.S. freighter “Eixelter” on hearing of the strike of dockers in Marseille stopped steam for the ‘winches. Some Wegro workers from the French colonial port of Djibouty, pressed to scab, had to be released 4rom the work. Working Population of Marseille on Side of Striking Dockers In many ways the population of Marseilles express their sympathy with the strike of the dockers: The proprietor of a small cafe has given the income of one day to the strike committee. Many other small busi- ness people are following his ex- ample, i c Wictory in Rouen We have just received the report that the strike of the dockers in Rouen was concluded with a com- plete victory for the dockers, The employers were compelled to withdraw the announced wage- cut and give the promise that no wage-cuts will be attempted for the duration of a year. United action and trade union unity booked a first yictory for the dockers in Rouen! VANCOUVER LOGGER INJURED CAMPBELL RIVER, Jan. 8— Mike Kerchuk, an employee of the Elk River Timber Co., at Quin- sam, had two ribs fractured when a flying slab torn from a loge during loading operations struck him. His family reside at 5510 Keefer street, Yancouver. Vancouver was again made a laughing-stock before Canada and the world last Sunday through the antics of Gerry McGeer. Our come- dian-mayor called for another “day of prayer, supplication and humili- ation.” He made a proclamation calling upon the Gitizens if our crime-ridden city to sive thanks unto the Almighty for the abolition of crime, and for the preservation of “law and order,”’ forgetting that the people haven’t forgotten that when he used his position and au- thority to drive the youth back to Bennett’s—and now Wing’s—slave compounds, and to assist the Ship- ping Federation in their attempt to smash the waterfront unions, he did not ask any sod for help; he Prayers And Bullets called upon the armed forces of the city, the province and the na- tion, and used them in the most eruel and ruthless fashion. Hs proclamation, which was Siven great prominence in the daily papers of the City, reeked with hy- pocrisy .and cant, and was couched in language which aped that of Lineoln’s Emancipation Proclama- tion or a Papal Encyclical. Remembering the booing he re- ceived when he attempted to preach in Rey. Roddan’s pulpit, Gerry tool no chances this time. In the church in which he condescended to Wor ship he took the precaution to have 2 mob of city police to intimidate the people, just As he had them Present at most of his Bre election Campaign meetings. 2 | Free Tube and Set Check TROUBLE SHOOTERS | Carleton Radio Servicers “For Every Radio Trouble—we haye Expert Technicians and Modern Equip- ment offers you Guaranteed Work at RADIO an Answer” Reasonable Rates. Phone Carleton 263-R TONIGHT Two-Hour Program . Orchestra . . Proceeds in Aid of . 19909904 909000004 9O9OF 00900000000 GRAND CONCERT LABOR TEMPLE, 805 Pender Street East Fri. Jan. 10, 8 p.m.— TONIGHT - Clown Magician .. 5 61-Voice Male Choir, and Many Other Artists ADMISSION 15 CENTS “The Worker” and “B.C. Workers’ News” Chinese RATES: One year, $1.30. SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PAPER BY FILLING OUT THE FORM BELOW 6 Months, $1.00. Please send THE B.C. 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